March 02, 1850

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Features

Remedy for Deafness

Railroads vs. Steamboats

Salt upon Ice

The Hydrostatic Blowing Pipe—Fig 1

Cure for Felon or Whitlow

Old Cure for Ague

De Grand's Railroad from St. Louis to the Pacific

Mirage on the Prairie

A Jewel of a Wife

A Rival to Buffalo

Something New

Apples

Back Volumes Scientific American

Correspondence of the Scientific American

Effects of Camphor on the Teeth

Hudson River Railroad

New Grist Mill at Niagara Falls

Potatoes

North River Railroad

The New City, at Hadley Falls, Mass

New Plan of Laying the Foundation of Piers and Docks

A Sure Alarm Clock Invention

Air Guns

The Great Discovery of Sir H. Davy

Improved Hydrant

Lithographic Printing by Steam

Monuments from Nicaragua

New Hemp Brake

Plundering the Inventor's Fund

Scientific Memoranda

Camphene

Deception of Vision in Heights and Distances

Transactions of the N. Y. State Institution of Civil Engineers

Woodworth Patent Controversial

Notice

Awful Ride on a Railroad

Remarkable Recovery

The True Defence of Nations

Discoveries in Ancient Nineveh

Every Woman her own Dressmaker

Mode of Fixing Pencil Drawing

List of Patent Claims

Improved Daguerreotypes

History of Propellers and Steam Navigation

Electric Clock Illuminated Dial at New Orleans

The Winter in Europe

Tanning—Practical Remarks

Steam Boiller Explosions

Departments

From the Editor

To Correspondents

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